How much work for Windows Multiple Process support?

[chicagoben]

itpp2012 Wrote:
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> I think we might benefit more from solving the
> select problem, with 8 separate workers as
> mentioned before you're still stuck to 1024*8
> which isn't that much more, found an interesting
> discussion about select, why it's used and why it
> should not be used on windows systems:
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.winsock.program
> ming/browse_thread/thread/a041475f7312f9c5
> 
> If select was rewritten you could run 4
> worker_processes with 10.000 worker_connections
> each on their own cpu. Windows can handle this
> just as easy as Linux folks.


Do you know how hard it would be to do that with nginx?  I'm a C/C++
programmer, I just don't want to dive into this project if there are
going to be lots of other situations that aren't thread-safe.

Thanks,

Ben

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,226147,226698#msg-226698